A temple dedicated to General Xie Yongchang (謝永常), a military officer serving under the pirate-king Koxinga, in the Houjia area of East Tainan. It was established in the 1960s after his bones were discovered during the construction of a nearby school. The altar holds two further martial figures: General Zhao Sheng (趙勝將軍) and the deified Japanese colonel Yoshihara Kozo (吉原小造), reputedly an officer under Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa (北白川宮能久親王) who died in Anping during the Yiwei War, the Japanese invasion of 1895. Yoshihara has since been sinicized as Xie Jiyuan (謝吉原) and counted among the temple’s Xie family of deities.
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Yang Ming Lecture Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (國立陽明交通大學陽明人文社會講座)
- Taiwan Visual Dictionary (台湾ビジュアル辞典)
- Taiwan Visual Dictionary (台湾ビジュアル辞典)
Themes
- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
- Deified Outsiders in Taiwan (台灣成神的外來者)
- Ming-Zheng Era Taiwan (明鄭時期)
- Koxinga’s Legacy (國姓爺的歷史影響)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.